New SDXC storage card has up to 2 TB storage

The next generation of the SD card has arrived in the form of the SDXC (extended capacity.) Announced today at CES 2009, The new SDXC cards provide up to 2 TB of storage and have write speeds from 104 MB to 300 MB per second.{ad}

To do this, the new card utilizes NAND flash memory. Because of this, the new cards are said to be able to hold 100 HD movies, 60 hours of HD recording, and 17,000 “fine grade” photos. When used with your phone, it can be turned into your own media center for the most part.

This new technology will be a nice compliment to enthusiasts/professionals as cameras and camcorders both now record HD video and take very high quality pictures. The 2 TB memory cards will allow for large amounts of storage–which is even more useful for the professional on the go. In fact, it is said to be able to hold more than 4,000 RAW images–which are images that professionals take before putting them through photoshop to get them perfect.

I shoot in RAW and then convert to JPEG or TIFF–you can see examples at my Flickr. Almost all the pictures there were a RAW at some point.

The new Canon camcorders I blogged about the other day will be able to hold and essentially archive all the video that a user would like.

Additionally, if you’ve got an MP3 player that can accept SD cards–then you’ve probably got something on your hands that can pwn an iPod. PWN!

Furthermore, the cards use Microsofts exFAT system of archiving, so they should be able to work with a large number of products.

Speak Your Mind

hodar

Wow … I do mean … wow!!

The going phrase is that an SDcard can retain data for 10 years, possibly more. This means that with a 2TB card, not only can it open doors to media centers, it’s also a viable, compact, cost efficient back-up system. Imagine, replacing thousands of SCSI based tape back-ups with comparably inexpensive, easily stored, non-temperature controlled environment media such as a couple hundred SDcards.

This is going to be a technology disrupter.

jo

how much does this cost???

Chris Gampat

No idea yet…I’m hoping they won’t cost me my left eye and a couple of other organs though. I rather value my organs.

poorgeek

when do thay put a usb port on it :D!!

poorgeek

More like butt fuck and ipod:)

hodar

Re:Chris

If these units scale like most other memory-class items, I’d guess the scaling would be along this line.

A 32 Gig SD Card goes for ~$150 (pricegrabber.com)
So, 32 GB x 64 units comes to 2TB; thus 64 x $150 = $9,600. I think this is likely in the neighborhood of what we are looking at, maybe a little bit more as they are just coming out – so they are gonna run somewhere in the ~$10K range. Naturally, as time goes by, the price will plumet; like every other emerging technology.

When the price plummets, look for technology disruption to really take off. Why bother with a hard drive, when SD cards use less power, have no moving parts, and have a sustained data rate that far exceeds the burst rate of a typical HDD cache. A SATA drive will have 16-32 Meg of cache, so it can burst at 150 MB/s whatever is in it’s cache, which is great. However, this SD Card exceeds the burst capability of any mechanical HDD on the market. Nice ….

Chris: So, would you sell your ‘organs’ for $10K? I think I’ll keep mine around, even if I rarely get to use them anymore. The cards will come down in price eventually; and I may have some future use for the ‘organs’.

inoxio

the use of this type of memry in a sd card is great as it is the same type as used in ssd drives and this is aimed at a much larger market, so can only increase demmand and reduce prices hopefully on ssd’s :)

http://www.eprovided.com Bruce Cullen

I am the founder of eProvided.com, we deal with NAND data recovery. This device at most can hold maybe 4 NAND chips, I would think this would be 2 NAND chips at 1TB each, but not sure yet. The price of $9,000 is way to high, I would expect at least 1/2 that cost. Another thing is we do not even know yet exactly when they will become available. The longer the wait the cheaper they will price out at.
But just so you all know, these same NAND wafers can fit onto the new SSD hard drives, the standard board can hold 8 NAND wafers on each side, so thats 16 chips in ONE ssd, so if these were 1 TB chips that a sickly fast SSD at about a hard drive size of 16TB and it would fit in a cigarette pack just about.
-Bruce Cullen, eProvided.com Founder

Robbie42

Where does it say that this is 2TB? It’s *capable* of 2TB, like SDHC is capable of 32GB. The 32gig limit is why a new spec is needed…

Sythe

It appears they expect the 2tb to hit sometime around 5 years from now, and the line will evolve up to that (as HC did from 4gb to 32gb over the last few years). I would also assume that by the time they come out, they will probably release for the approximate price that 32gb did when it was released.
Now you consider that 10 years ago, a 32mb SD card was $30, a 128mb was about $200. Now you have about 500x the capacity at the same price (a 16gb at $30). The most important thing I get from this announcement… I think that the cost of Flash Memory (including Solid State drives) is about to plummet over the next 5 years.
I dont expect to see standard harddrives lasting much longer…

Amresh Kumar

still it will take time to come in market. even in case of USB port it will take time

The Techy of the Future

You really need to get the facts straight on how much these can store you’re way under estimating them and you’re write speed is way to high. I checked these with the SDCA which sets the standards and oh boy! http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdxc
bus interface speed up to 104 MB per second
A 2 TB SDXC memory card could store an estimated 100 HD movies or 480
hours of HD recording or 136,000 fine-grade photos. Faster bus speeds
will enable professional-level recording in compact consumer camcorders
and increase the number of frames shot in a second with SDXC cameras

Sythe

Ok, Im sorry. Normally I wouldnt post this, but I just cant resist. Looking to the future, so far it seems everyone knows more or less how this works, and what to expect has been posted. Well aware of the future possible (and likely) specs. But all you did was simply copy and paste like an advertisement… Please, point out exactly what we missed. Or something? Elaborating more on the growth trend ive seen of flash memory, we should expect 128 early next year, 256 next, 512… 1tb… finally 2tb on the 5th. Of course, this is just my estimation.

james braselton

HI THERE DOO YOU THINK NINTENDO WILL USE A 2 TERABYTE SDXC CARD FOR THE WII 2 AND THE DSI 2 I HOPE ONE DAY WE SEE TERABYTE GAMES

travis

wow that’s amazing i bet their the same size as in the picture too

Rick

I’m not impressed. I have worked in the computer industry for 30 years and dispite all the advances in technology, they are slow to market. Heads up displays is a good example. They have been around the same basic model for 30 years or so with little change, and if you try to buy something in the United States, you will end up with glasses with a huge item attached and sticking out in front. On the other hand, Tiny little war torn Israel can provide some the project right on to the lenses of your glasses from the frames. So much for U.S. technology. The SD card is no different. There is money to be made by releasing it slowly so that is the way they do it.

On the other hand. If I were to come out with a 10 TB card that transfered at 500 MB / Second, and I released it right away at a reasonable price, I would put Sandisk out of business.

To quote the borg. “We need the technology now”.

Mac Gamer

Image if they make New video console that use those card for game instead disc.

http://none JimmyDee

Silly people.

SDXC is a new format with a higher capacity, but that doesn’t mean much of anything.

The controller structure will be able to ADDRESS up to 2TB.

They still have to be able to BUILD the flash memory in the correct density to be able to fit it all in (like the guy from eProvider said). And stuff at that level of density is a long ways off in terms of affordability.

The funny thing is, CF capacity theoretically extends right up to 128 GB. Yet, with a card roughly 40% larger and 40% thicker, it will always be possible to build cheaper (not necessarily sell or produce cheaper due to supply/demand) AND CF has much less problems with ‘shifting compatibility’.

I have a PDA that is a little more than 5 years old, but it is still just as capable if not still better than most current PDA’s and I have been running a 32GB CF in it for around a year. Can’t use any larger than a 4GB SD card though due to compatibility.

SDXC would bring a third non-compatible standard to market, thus rendering older devices prematurely obsolete. I’d be pissed to have an expensive DSLR that had SD only to find out that 32gb cards are as far as it goes.

Bleh.

I’m glad I have a DSLR with CF. Now all they have to do is drop that ridiculously outdated Type II support so we don’t have to keep hearing people complain about how much space it takes up.